My Blog Week: June 17 to June 23

In this week’s Figure, part six of “Peas in a Pod”, Richard reunites with his father, helped along by Thomas’s kindness, and meets an old family acquaintance; on Monday, an Assorted Opinions, going back to the underlying structure of a joke; on Tuesday, a poem “When You See God”. Wednesday, Giarma’s story continues in Yoharie: “Report from the Trenches” (part two), with her recollection of a pivotal moment. Thursday, more Catastrophe, Hess in the ruins of Saint-Pierre, seeking description. On Friday, part three of “Are You Adaptable”, in which Stenner raises a question, and Beloye finds Dan’s instant rivalry with him annoying. Saturday, another Assorted Opinions, this time on the theme of hectoring creative people.

Images on my posts usually have a link to related information (click first image), sometimes serious, sometimes whimsical, sometimes in answer to a direct reference. Since people can be leery about links, I include them here: what they are, what sites they point to.

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“He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.”